aliyah
Americannoun
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aliyahs,
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aliyos,
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aliyot
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the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
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the immigration of Jews to Israel, either as individuals or in groups.
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any of the major waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine or Israel.
noun
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immigration to the Holy Land
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the honour of being called to read from the Torah
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of aliyah
From the Hebrew word ʿăliyyāh, literally, “ascent, rise”
Example Sentences
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Julian Hirsch, 28, who is finishing a Ph.D. in archaeology at Hebrew University, made aliyah this year because his fieldwork doesn’t exist anywhere else at comparable scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The statistics bureau also said that in 2021, immigration to Israel - called aliyah in Hebrew - rose nearly 30% from 2020 to 25,497.
From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2022
Maccabiah presents “a golden opportunity to encourage aliyah” — or Jewish immigration to Israel — Pnina Tameno Shete, the minister for aliyah and integration, said in a said in a statement this week.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
“Anyone who is familiar with the European reality knows that a call to make aliyah is not the solution for anti-Semitic terror,” Margolin said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2015
She and Myerson were married in 1917, and in 1921 she persuaded him to sail to Palestine with her as a member of the third aliyah, or wave of immigration.
From Time Magazine Archive
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